Estimating air-sea heat fluxes in semienclosed basins: The case of the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba)

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 185-202

  Ben Sasson, Moshe ^a   Brenner, Steve ^b   Paldor, Nathan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURES; AIR-SEA HEAT FLUXES; ANNUAL MEANS; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITIES; BEST CHOICES; BEST ESTIMATES; EVAPORATION RATES; HEAT BALANCES; LONG WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC DATUM; MIXED-LAYER MODELS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TURBULENT FLUXES; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; WATER COLUMNS;

EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT STORAGE; SEAWATER; SPECIFIC HEAT; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPORATION; HEAT BALANCE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER COLUMN;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 65549100536     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3858.1     Document Type: Article

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